Introduction

On this page you will find maps showing the areal distribution of grammatical evidentiality marking in East Caucasian languages. The data used to draw them can be accessed here. The page is meant to accompany a paper which is forever in preparation (submitted to Languages of the Caucasus and currently in revision).

Samira Verhees - Linguistic Convergence Laboratory at NRU HSE, Moscow

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to George Moroz for developing Lingtypology for R and always being ready to help, answer questions and come up with solutions. And thanks to some anonymous students of the School of Linguistics for using their programming skills to create useful resources, such as a dataset of East Caucasian villages and languages.


General maps

All East Caucasian languages from the Glottolog database

All East Caucasian villages by language

All East Caucasian villages by genealogical branch

All East Caucasian villages by language + market languages of the East Caucasus

Evidentiality

Evidential systems in EC

This map roughly follows the classification and colors of the WALS map on “Coding of evidentiality”. Based on the sources I used, individual languages received a different classification than they have on the WALS map. Most typical for EC are mixed systems, featuring both verb tense and verb particles. Hover over a dot to see the language and click to view the source used.

All villages by general systems

Villages versus datapoints

Evidentiality as part of the tense system

Perfect-based indirect evidential past

Perfect meanings

Tense vs. particles

Particles only

Data